I attended an emergency fair and took notes on Preparing for different type of emergencies.
– First hour:
Prepare for the worst. Sometimes it’s a short-term emergency. You will want to have access to first aid. You want determine the location of the threat, such as earthquakes, tornado, hurricane, ice storms, plague. Prepare for harsh weather especially cold weather.
You will want to have access to the appropriate clothing. A storm can kill you if you expose for over 40 minutes. This is a good example of what you prepare for the worst.
Cold weather results with hypothermia. Research has shown that hypothermia could begin at temperatures of even if 50 or 60° with a win factor combined with being wet. You want to get out of wet clothes in the dry clothes. You want to get access to a heavy-duty jacket extra change of clothes and extra warm socks.
– Medicine: You want to have this with you at all times, if you depend upon certain things.
– Personal safety: After a solar storm in New York City, where they lost the power looting began within 10 minutes, sometimes stilling things, though not even a value such as manhole covers.
– Emergencies happen at inconvenient times though multiple examples of where the Saints were kicked out of homes in the middle of winter, including Abreu. You need to prepare against the perfect storm.
– There are bad people. If there are no consequences, people will do anything they want.
– Pay attention to circumstances around you. listen to the inner voice
– Many rape victims have the impression that some was wrong. Listen to that.
– Be aware with those around you.
– How to protect against bad people, be aware of situations around you
– There is safety in members
– First 24 hours:
Clean water, 1 gallon per day, one half for drinking and ½ gallon for sanitary purposes. Take care of your cleansing things in the works for you.
Personally six hours: food, sprouting, sanitation, better shelter, associate with groups and personnel that can share safety.
– First week:
Food, disease, sanitation, better shelter, community support
– First six months:
Food, sprouting, vitamins, counter such disease and sanitation issues.
– 72 hours:
Warmth, heat in a can, Flint to start a fire.
Change of clothing.
AM/FM radio and batteries
Water purifying tablets
Food
First aid and good multivitamins (good quality vitamins usually cost around $50)
Sanitation
Gloves winter clothes
Supplies such as: multipurpose tools, Leatherman knife and sharpener, compass
Week in its original container is the best way to store week. When you make it into flour, it loses its potency within the first 48 hours.
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